The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( also called Mormons ) neither promotes nor opposes capital punishment, although the church's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., supported it.

Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

( Smith was a former member of the Secret Six who had supported John Brown ).

Kemp supported rights for illegal immigrants, but opposed Lamar Smith and Alan Simpson's proposed restrictions on legal immigration.

Smith argued Confederation was supported by many colonists who were sympathetic to a relatively interventionist, or statist, approach to capitalist development.

Roberts County voters supported Democratic presidential candidates in all elections from 1892 through 1948, with the exception of Al Smith in 1928.

Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith ( a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association ) as a " dupe of communists " and a proponent of the " mingling of the races ", as played out on fliers including the phrase " Wake Up, White People " in the virtually all-white Democratic primaries.

Her closest adult companion and friend was Mary Rozet Smith, who supported Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she shared a romantic friendship.

This is supported by DNA analyses performed on the bees as they spread northwards ; those that were at the " vanguard " were over 90 % African mtDNA, indicating an unbroken matriline ( Smith et al., 1989 ), but after several years in residence in an area interbreeding with the local European strains, as in Brazil, the overall representation of African mtDNA drops to some degree.

In 2007, Wyden, with fellow Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, again supported the bill.

Nick Smith urged caution ; James Talent supported action ; Jay Inslee warned that inaction would be unacceptable.

She finds that through his writings, Smith typically supported the status quo on women's issues and " lost sight of the division of labor in the family and the contribution of women's economic work.

Smith asserted that he was not joking ; he sincerely supported the amendment and, indeed, along with Rep. Martha Griffiths, he was the chief spokesperson for the amendment.

The exhibition was organised with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and supported by Maja Hoffmann, Vicky Hughes and John Smith, and Dr Naomi Milgrom AO.

Smith supported the creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953, and won the Midlands federal constituency for the United Federal Party ( UFP ) in that year's inaugural federal election ; following his election at federal level he resigned the territorial Selukwe seat.

In a recent paper ( on pages 285 – 87 ), Steven Gjerstad and Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith describe more fully ( 1 ) the contribution of derivatives to the flow of mortgage funds that supported the housing bubble, ( 2 ) the concerns that Brooksley Born had raised about the dangers inherent in these contracts, ( 3 ) Summers's contribution to their deregulation, and ( 4 ) how these contracts precipitated the collapse of the financial system in 2007 and 2008.

In 1928, he supported New York Governor Al Smith for President and campaigned for him across the South.

The mayor of Christchurch supported the churchmen and cabled a protest to Kingsford Smith.

He had strongly supported Ian Smith in the dispute over Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

A fleet including HMS Eclipse, Esk, Fawn, Himalaya, Miranda, Orpheus, Wasp, gunboats ; Koheroa, Paparata, Rangiriri and various support vessels ; Kate, Light of the Age, Prince Albert, Reliance, Sandfly, Sir Harry Smith, Spitfire, Star of India, Stuart, Wakool and Tarawera supported the war effort either on the Waikato River, landing troops and supplies at Miranda in the Firth Of Thames, or bringing troops and a regular stream of supplies from Australia.

In time, he did come to terms with Smith, who supported his claims to title in the Route on condition that he take up the reformed religion.

In an aside that illustrates the complexities of Southern political allegiances during the relevant period, Portis's narrator Mattie Ross says: " brought a good deal of misery to the land in the Panic of ’ 93 but I am not ashamed to own that my family supported him and has stayed with the Democrats right on through, up to and including Governor Alfred Smith, and not only because of Joe Robinson.

Mapplethorpe lived with his partner Patti Smith from 1967 – 1974, and she supported him by working in bookstores.

Mormon writer Monte B. McLaws, in the Missouri Historical Review, supported Smith, averring that while there was no clear finger pointing to anyone, Governor Boggs was running for election against several violent men, all capable of the deed, and that there was no particular reason to suspect Rockwell of the crime.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

Hague's successor, Iain Duncan Smith, made a concerted drive at one point to resurrect the European Democratic Group, but backed off when it became clear that Conservative MEPs would not move voluntarily.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

' " For Democratic Socialism " is vaporised, just like Winston Smith did it at the Ministry of Truth, and that ’ s very much what happened at the beginning of the McCarthy era and just continued, Orwell being selectively quoted.

Hoover managed to crack the so-called " Solid South ", winning such Democratic strongholds as Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Tennessee ; the Deep South stood with Smith.

* Joe L. Smith ( 1880 – 1962 ), American Democratic Party politician from West Virginia

* 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

* August 22 – Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY / W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.

During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to the Democratic U. S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie.

New York Governor Al Smith ( who would become the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928 ) then threw out the first pitch directly into the glove of catcher Wally Schang rather than the customary couple of feet wide.

Nevertheless, she remained active in the Democratic Party and campaigned for Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election though the two disagreed on prohibition.

In 1926 he became Mayor of New York City, having defeated incumbent John F. Hylan in the 1925 Democratic primary with the help of Governor Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall.

* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

A network of local clubs led by national organizer Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, the Share Our Wealth Society was intended to operate outside of and in opposition to the Democratic Party and the Roosevelt administration.

Joseph's son, Benjamin J. Altheimer, became a successful attorney, establishing the prominent Chicago law firm of Altheimer, Mayer, Woods, and Smith ( later known as Altheimer & Gray ), and serving twice as president of Chicago's Iroquois Club, the city's oldest Democratic Party political club.

* William N. H. Smith, Democratic Congressman and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice

Vincent Mazzeo was re-elected without opposition for another four-year term in the November 8, 2011 general election, while New Republicans Lisa Brown and Jim O ' Neil defeated Democratic challengers to win seats representing Wards 1 and 2 respectively in the November 8, 2011 general election, after defeating incumbent Regular Republicans Cindy Kern and Brian Smith in the June Primary.

* George T. Smith ( 1916 – 2010 ), American Democratic Party politician and jurist from the state of Georgia

Alfred Emanuel " Al " Smith ( December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944 ) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times and was the Democratic U. S. presidential candidate in 1928.